How to Determine Why a User Has Access to a Record in Salesforce.com (SFDC)?
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Updated October 27, 2017 11:22

Question:

How to determine why a user has access to a record in SFDC?

Answer:

To determine if a user has access to a record in SFDC, follow these steps:

Access the sharing detail of the record, the easiest way is to use the following links:

For accounts:

test.salesforce.com/p/share/AccSharingDetail?parentId=id of the record

For custom objects:

test.salesforce.com/p/share/CustomObjectSharingDetail?parentId=id of the record

The sharing detail page is displayed:

Click on the Expand List button.

On the next page, all of the users who have access are displayed:

Click on the Why? button to view the exact access explanation:

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